Founder Marc Raibert discusses the city of the firm’s birth and his plans to advance robotic and AI research with TechCrunch's Brain Heater.

The pairing has, thus far, been something of a mixed bag. As Boston Dynamics looks to pragmatic applications to commercialize robots like Spot and Stretch, Hyundai has used the technology for some wild sci-fi demos, including one at this year’s CES featuring Spot hanging out on Mars as a metaverse avatar.